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News on Sport in China

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Can Cai Zhenhua fix Chinese football, or is it a task too far?
Feb 7, 2014 (WiC 225)

It’s not often an executive in the football world is compared to Jing Ke, the scholar and swordsman from the ancient kingdom of Wei. But that was the allusion drawn by the Beijing Evening News late last month, as it likened the task of the new ...

Second Grand Slam for Li Na as she wins Australian Open
Jan 31, 2014 (WiC 224)

"In victory: magnanimity” Winston Churchill once urged. But Li Na took a different approach after she became the first Asian woman to win the Australian Open on Saturday. For her, it was more a case of ‘in victory: hilarity’. Indeed, ...

Beijing wants to host yet another Olympiad
Nov 22, 2013 (WiC 217)

The sporting authorities from the city of Beijing can’t be faulted for a lack of ambition. Earlier this month the Chinese capital announced it had submitted a bid to host the winter Olympics in 2022. If it is successful, Beijing will be the ...

Veni, vidi, vici

How a Sino-Italian joint venture conquered Asian football
Nov 15, 2013 (WiC 216)

"The ball is round, the pitch rectangular” advises the first rule for cuju, the six-a-side footballing format acknowledged by FIFA, soccer’s governing body, as China’s ancient forerunner of the modern game. The same principle continues ...

Sun not shining

Swimming ace in scandal that embroils Hyundai
Nov 15, 2013 (WiC 216)

Talk about driving and Tiger Woods, and the first impression is a ball landing 300 yards down a fairway. But gossip column readers got a very different interpretation four years ago, after news that Tiger had crashed his car into a fire hydrant ...

WiC reports from the WGC-HSBC Champions in Shanghai
Nov 8, 2013 (WiC 215)

For the African fisherman calling ashore to find out which market will pay most for his catch or the health worker looking for expert advice on how to treat an isolated patient, mobile phones have been a huge blessing. But for the world’s ...

Playing defence

Ian Poulter reckons China has become crucial to golf’s future
Oct 25, 2013 (WiC 213)

Chinese spectators got their first glimpse of Ian Poulter’s tartan trousers and pink shirts at Shanghai’s Sheshan golf club eight years ago. Since then he has teed off at courses as far apart as Jinsha Lake in Zhengzhou, Red Flag Valley in ...

Yao learns investment lessons
Oct 18, 2013 (WiC 212)

When Yao Ming joined the NBA in 2002, the 7-foot-6-inch giant was hyped as a “mobile Great Wall” that towered as a centre but also had touch sweet enough to play shooting guard. But you can’t have it all in life. Yao’s nine-year NBA ...

The final challenge

Football club makes history by reaching Asian final
Oct 4, 2013 (WiC 211)

When Marcello Lippi was unveiled as Guangzhou Evergrande’s coach last May, he made a rather memorable prediction. “My arrival may be the most important thing for China today,” he told local media, confidently. Impressive talk, but Lippi ...

Ignominy for Beijing team at the National Games
Sep 13, 2013 (WiC 208)

Sometimes mistakes are so obvious that the error has to be acknowledged immediately. This was the case last weekend after netizens mocked China’s state media for mistakenly reporting that Istanbul had won the right to host the 2020 ...

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